remember what Raoul said... BIAS = LAYOFFS!!!
Posted on 09/16/2011 1:33:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After 30 months of unemployment, 400 applications, and only three in-person interviews, I stood looking at my last unemployment benefit without a job in sight.
The temptation was to frame it, since it marks one of those transitions in life that merits being remembered. But I needed the money more than a memento, so I took my last unemployment check to the bank and deposited it -- $367 for some necessities. Food, rent, gas. My last unemployment check was $160 less than my usual weekly benefit, but still a welcome boost to my sagging finances. How I will miss those Tuesday trips to the mailbox and then the bank, one of the few regular events in my upended, irregular life!
I had always thought the unemployed were society's unfortunates, people unlike me lacking in education or training or experience or skills. Then in March of 2009, the Hearst Corporation quit publishing the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. I suddenly became a labor statistic, one of millions without work in the worst economic implosion since the Depression. I was more fortunate than many unemployed people since the Newspaper Guild negotiated a decent severance that yielded two weeks' pay for every year of employment. Since I had spent more than a quarter century underneath the P-I's landmark globe, my severance was a year's salary, although that lump sum check as I left the building forever had a tax bite from a Great White Shark.
Now my severance is exhausted, as is my unemployment, and I am scrambling every day for work. I had been a columnist, then the book critic for the P-I, enviable newspaper jobs even among my colleagues. Now I seek any writing or editing work that I discover,
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
A clue about what?
He says he applied for that.
I'm disgusted by it. How's that grab you?
I say this as someone who is three months from my 65th birthday. I knew Social Security was evil when I was 21. I'm not going to tear up my check when I they start sending me one, but I do understand that it is wrong. Okay?
ML/NJ
cpa ray you are heartless
Have him check. With all the building going on you would think they would. I do know that medial jobs are paying unbelievable amounts of money.
But, I do not know if one can find lodging there...or how much it costs. It goes with the boom..prices go high when booms are going on.
I would say a little research online for western North Dakota or northwestern part of the state would bring some interesting things up.
remember what Raoul said... BIAS = LAYOFFS!!!
Washington state pays $527 a week in unemployment benefits?
So, 30 months (130 weeks) of unemployment at $527 per week = $68,510 paid out.
That is outrageous!
And if employers are willing to hire you. If you’re seen as “overqualified” prospective employers might turn you down for two reasons:
1) They fear you’ll take their job away from them.
2) They fear you’ll leave them once you’ve found something better.
How do you put out 15 applications a day? With cover letters, resume and writing sample?
Oh horse manure
what delivering pizza
"Human kindness is overflowing!"
I wonder if you know how much his employer paid. I know because I've been paying for the past 28 years as the president of my single employee corporation. It's peanuts. (Less than $300 a year, I think. I don't really know. I just pay.) And BTW, I haven't had any income at all this year and I'm not eligible to collect.
You're simply naive if you think that any sort of unemployment taxes have paid for someone to be on the dole for two and a half years. (Sort of like my grandmother who thought her $60/year (combined!) paid for her social security.)
ML/NJ
So, some liberal, Bush-bashing book critic has been out of work for the duration of the Obama presidency. Hard Cheese! Just say thank you for the 2.5 year free ride and go flip some burgers.
From the rest of the article...I wonder if this unemployed journolist ever told the UC people he was taking work under the table? Just because a person succeeds in landing a job promulgating lies for a particular point of view does not mean that they can automatically be a "Communications Director" or a "Technical Editor"......
JOURNOLISTS are accustomed to spouting lies that could arguably said to be coming from their keesters rather than from their brains. It's IDEOLOGY and a contempt for the working person that makes them think they are better than others and can rightfully "shape and mold the minds of the masses".....I hope this man never gets a job putting his thoughts on paper or ether again! Dig a ditch, dump some trash, but no dissemination of false ideas.
1. I am already living in an area where jobs are supposedly easier to get.
2. Health issues keep me from living just anywhere.
3. I have to stay here at least ‘til my son graduates from high school next June.
4. If you’re offering to buy my house so I can move, Freepmail me!
Meanwhile, I’m taking a course that I hope will help land me a job, I’m freelancing, and I’m making a few pennies here and there from selling stuff online and doing a little business. But when you’re over 55, no one wants to hire you. Except Home Depot, which seems to hire a lot of old guys. Maybe they’ll want to hire a middle-aged lady who can tell female customers how much fun it would be to have their own 12-inch DeWalt mitre saw just like mine.
UC rates are generally assessed on ‘experienced’ UC costs to the state - at least in my state. The less ‘experienced’ claimant costs, the lower the rate....
Unemployment is considered taxable income by the IRS.
He is a guy I have known for years and used to do business with him . 0care would of put him out of business anyway. He tried to sell but no takers. His business was contract manufacturing. He would assemble devices for others - a type of a job shop if you will.
Now do you want to retract your statement or ....
BTW he is not the only guy that I know that used to own a successful business. A guy that was very active in the chamber of commerce had a small distribution company that supplied C-stores with items. He went down three years ago. He is now manager of a fast food restaurant and not happy but employed.
Seeing the same thing here, a town of +- 400 we have a plumber but he is in his mid 80s and would love to retire. We have no electrician and have to import handy people and roofing people from other states. It is an old town with old houses, to have work done it sometimes takes forever to get someone to give an estimate. If we go to the closest large city, 70 miles away, to hire someone it is $150 just to get them out to look at it. If they will come at all, with all the flooding most contractors and builders are already too busy. I need windows installed, some other work inside and a deck repaired and there is no one here to do it. We need workers so bad here. Housing is cheap (my house payment is just under $100 a month) school is pretty darn decent, great hunting and it is a great little town. We love it here but we can’t get people to move here.
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